Bearded Women - 49 pictures

Advanced Photoshop Contest - 49 entries

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Started: 8/9/2012 06:00

Ended: 8/12/2012 17:00

Level: advanced

Entries: 49

Jackpot:

$5

$3

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Our past Bearded Women contest was a big hit in the blogosphere. Even Microsoft featured our bearded beauties. Today we are having another go at turning women into manly beasts.
Photoshop women with beards. Take a look at some great examples from the master of women beardisation, berdulano: 1, 2,
3.

This contest is fueled by the following news: In ancient Egypt, the beard had a strictly definite significance. Pharaohs shaved everyday, but on the contrary, sported beard. They tied the beard with the help of a ribbon, the ends of which are tied in a knot behind the ears. The length of the beard depended on social status. Even the queens appeared in public with beard-like rectangles.
The beard plays an important role in the Muslim religion. Any oath is associated with the beard of prophet or with their personal beard. And don't think of pulling a Muslim's beard, even in dreams. Such an act is not forgiven.
The beard has survived all times and eras. For many ages, it was a kind of symbol for the privileged layers of society. And in the middle of the 19th century, it was persecuted in many countries, especially in German princedoms as a sign of a man having a democratic outlook. Marx, Engels and many other revolutionists sported moustaches and beards.
Presently, beard and moustaches are not an issue of petty bourgeoisie or rebelliousness but only fashion and personal preference.
WORLD FAMOUS BEARDED PERSONALITIES:
Beards were always found on men's faces. Great conquerors sported beards so as to showcase their power and masculinity. Presently or a century ago, several famous personalities sported beards, in pursuit of different reasons whereas, their fields of interest were different.
* Luciano Pavarotti: the beard has given the opera singer some solidity, respectability, exclusivity and importance, that distinguished him from ordinary opera singers.
* Fidel Castro: the bearded commandant of The Island of Freedom. He took an oath not to shave his beard till the comprehensive victory of revolution at a global level. Once, the CIA decided to shave the famous beard of Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro was about to go on a foreign trip, where he would have stayed in hotels. It was only required to put thallium salts in the shoe soles of the leader. However, the trip was cancelled and the CIA's plan fell apart.
* Hans Steininger: An Austrian who received international fame thanks to the longest beard (1.4 m). He died accidentally by stepping on his beard's tip.
* Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: In 2003, as mayor of Tehran, he passed an ordinance, banning public servants to sport a beard. Visibly, the future president of Iran wanted to be distinguished with a beard amongst shaven employees.
* Jedi knight - peacemaker, having the power.
* Chuck Norris: His beard was an important component of the Hollywood actor's image. Many legends about his beard make the rounds. One of them: "Chuck Norris attempted to shave his beard and he broke down 92 Gillett Power and three petrol-powered saws".
* Edward Teach: A most famous pirate, who had the nickname of "Black beard". He looked like the captain Flint, from the novel "Treasure Island". Daniel Defoe wrote the following about the beard of Teach in "A General History of The Pyrates": "it reaches up to the eyes, was black in color and unusually long so that Teach usually plaited it into pigtails, interweaving them with ribbons and twisted the pigtails onto his ears. All this gave him an appearance, that no terrible fury could be more frightening".
* Ernesto Che Guevara: the beard of a famous fighter who brought billions to fight against capitalism.